hermann graf

Winner of the country's highest military honor and the first pilot to score 200 victories. Hermann Graf became a National Hero, and in about 830 combat missions, he claimed a total of 212 aerial victories, almost all of which were achieved on the Eastern Front. This rudder re-creation shows his score at 202- it is painstakingly marked like the original- which still exists and sits in a museum in Germany. Graf may have been a collector of some of his scoreboards, as pictures of him with another of his marked rudders exist- and this item may have come from his own collection. Regardless, Graf stands tall as one of the true pioneers of aerial warfare, one of few that reached over 200 kills.